Which by their mouths they shall with pleasure take;

Which shall be cordial too, as well as sweet,

And of their little limbs, tall bodies make!"

This, would they think a fable! even as we

Do think the story of the Golden Age;

Or as some sensual spirits amongst us be,

Which hold the World to Come, "a feigned Stage."

Yet shall these infants, after, find all true;

Though, then, thereof, they nothing could conceive.

As soon as they are born, the world they view,